Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

Best individual pick: Santa Clara over Arizona when Nash and Co. beat them in 1993 (?). The first year I ever picked a bracket, it made me feel like a savant. One of only two times, I believe, that I picked a 15 over a 2 on my "official" pool. The other was Winthrop over Tennessee in 2006 (Tennessee hit a shot at the end to win by two).

Worst individual pick: I've had several first-round flameouts in my Final Four. Georgia Tech in '93 (lost to 14th-seeded Southern in the first round) and New Mexico this year are among a few. Nothing like seeing your $10 entry fee in the office pool still in the guy's hand when your bracket is going up in smoke.

Best overall pick: Butler to the Final Four in 2010. Just one of those picks where your brackets line up in a way where you're picking winners of games, not necessarily specific teams. Helped me win a couple hundred bucks before the Final Four even started, with bragging rights on nailing the sleeper pick to boot.

Going to add two categories here, too.
Biggest nemesis: 1990s Syracuse. I could never, ever figure these bastards out. If I picked them to lose early, they always seemed to make the Elite Eight or Final Four. If I picked them to go deep, they were gone on the opening weekend. Either way, they seemed to screw up my bracket every single year for the better part of a decade. Fuck Jim Boeheim.

Best use of a choking dog high seed: (Tie) Arizona, circa 1993-2000, and Kansas, circa 1995-98. Two teams that always seemed to enter the tournament with a top-3 or top-4 seed, and end up on the wrong end of a big upset fairly early on.
Arizona was a top-5 seed nine straight years from 1992-2000, and was bounced in the first or second round five times and in the Sweet 16 once.
Kansas had three one seeds and a two in a four year stretch, but only made it to one regional final.
Those two teams provided plenty of fodder for upset picks that you could see coming a mile away.

 

On the flip side, I remember picking Villanova (with Kerry Kittles) to go all the way one year and Old Dominion beat them in the first round.

This is of course ignoring my (and I'm sure your) Mizzou pick last year as fanboi false hope.

 

I actually can't remember who I picked last year. It was probably North Carolina. I remember I did not do well. I don't think I had a single Final Four team.

 

Ole Miss giving Wisconsin all it can handle right now. I knew it.

 

Good pick: I had Georgia Tech in the Final Four in 2004.

Bad picks? Too many to mention.

 

Bad pick...how about Wisconsin in the Final Four...RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW?

 

I picked Middle Tenn State to go to Final Four; thanks Mr. Jennings

 

This Wisconsin game is one of those where I'll root against a team I have going to the Sweet 16 because I can't stand watching them play. I have no problem with them being knocked out. Also, lots of people have them going that far or farther.

 

Did anyone else do the Marshall Henderson celebration move after a fart when they were kids, or was that isolated to my dork friends?

 

The Henderson kid couldn't hit sand if he fell off a fucking camel today, and they still beat a good Wisconsin team.

 

Maybe the camel was on grass.

 

Henderson started cold, then found the basket. Wisconsin was missing the way 8-year-olds do.